Meet up with your favourite artist! This is my New Year’s resolution! It could be yours as well?
Meet up with your favourite artist! What do we gain from meeting Artists? –
- Some insight into the way they work,
- We can learn what motivates artists to keep creating,
- We can discover what it is we especially like about their works,
- We can get a glimpse of their lifestyle and how far they have to travel, to gather ideas for future works,
- We can establish a rapport with the artist,
- We may decide to start a collection of their work,
- We can learn about some of their techniques,
- We can perhaps improve our own creativity as a result.
I hope to do all these things over the coming months by meeting up with my favourite artists.
I will meet them at their Exhibition Previews, where they are happy to discuss their work, I will visit them in their studios, during an Open Studio Event, I will see their work on Facebook, Instagram and other social media, and LIKE and SHARE their work to my friends. More importantly when I see work I really like, I will leave positive comments, and perhaps visit their web sites and online shops. I also watch their You Tube videos, I have learnt so much from these, especially online demonstrations.
As a result, wherever I go people come up to me and say “Oh I know you, we’re Facebook friends”.
So in 2017 – Go and Meet your favourite artists! Enjoy!